{"id":15932,"date":"2012-10-27T20:06:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T18:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-3-s-african-mine-strikes-wind-down-with-amplats-deal\/"},"modified":"2012-10-27T20:06:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T18:06:29","slug":"update-3-s-african-mine-strikes-wind-down-with-amplats-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-s-african-mine-strikes-wind-down-with-amplats-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-S.African mine strikes wind down with Amplats deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Union expects end to six-week strike at Amplats<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Pressure eases on Zuma as strikes wind down<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Reports of violence at union march<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Sherilee Lakmidas and Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Oct 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Workers have reached a deal<br \/>\nwith Anglo American Platinum to reinstate 12,000 miners sacked<br \/>\nfor an illegal strike, which could end the last big industrial<br \/>\naction that has rocked South Africa&#8217;s massive mining sector.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Months of often violent wildcat strikes have cut production<br \/>\nin the platinum and gold sectors, raising concerns about slowing<br \/>\neconomic growth as well as awkward questions about President<br \/>\nJacob Zuma&#8217;s management of the most damaging labour strife since<br \/>\nthe end of apartheid in 1994.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They agreed to reinstate all the dismissed workers on the<br \/>\nprovision that they return to work by Tuesday,&#8221; Lesiba Seshoka,<br \/>\nspokesman for the powerful National Union of Mineworkers (NUM),<br \/>\ntold Reuters on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Seshoka said he expected workers would return to their posts<br \/>\nand &#8220;that will mean the end of the strike&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Anglo American Platinum, or Amplats, said in a<br \/>\nseparate statement it had reached the deal with several unions<br \/>\nand offered sweeteners such as a one-off hardship payment of<br \/>\n2,000 rand ($230) to facilitate the return. The strike has<br \/>\nlasted about six weeks and crippled production.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Union expects end to six-week strike at Amplats * Pressure eases on Zuma as strikes wind down * Reports of violence at union march By Sherilee Lakmidas and Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG, Oct 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Workers have reached a deal with Anglo American Platinum to reinstate 12,000 miners sacked for an illegal strike, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}